Customer Screening Analyst – Sanctions & Data Quality

Barclays; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an experienced Business Analyst for a major Customer Screening project within its integrated financial crime change programme. London or Glasgow, 6-month PAYE contract, focusing on current-state assessment, gap analysis and requirements for sanctions screening across First and Second Lines of Defence.

The role collaborates with screening operations, Financial Crime Compliance, Technology and third-party vendors to deliver traceable outputs and implement improvements.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience supporting sanctions, financial crime or screening change in a large financial institution.
• Experience with current-state assessment, requirements definition, process and control mapping and gap analysis.
• Understanding of customer screening processes and their operational, data and technology dependencies.
• Experience maintaining traceability across analysis, delivery, testing and implementation.
• Effective engagement across business, compliance, operations, technology, data, vendors and change stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess current-state customer screening processes, controls, ownership, hand-offs, systems and data dependencies across First and Second Lines of Defence.
• Document and analyse screening effectiveness, data quality, data lineage, vendor arrangements and account-restriction controls.
• Elicit, document and validate business, control, data and technology requirements.
• Perform gap and root-cause analysis, distinguishing process, control, data, technology and operating-model issues.
• Maintain traceability from identified gap through requirement, solution, testing and closure evidence.
• Produce process maps, control maps, data-flow documentation, requirements and decision-ready analysis.
• Support solution design, testing, implementation readiness and stakeholder acceptance.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies and decisions, escalating material concerns promptly.

Skills

Sanctions knowledge

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation and analysis

Written communication

Job description

Barclays is seeking an experienced Business Analyst for a major Customer Screening project within its integrated financial crime change programme. London or Glasgow, 6-month PAYE contract, focusing on current-state assessment, gap analysis and requirements for sanctions screening across First and Second Lines of Defence.

The role collaborates with screening operations, Financial Crime Compliance, Technology and third-party vendors to deliver traceable outputs and implement improvements.